{"product_id":"traces-behind-the-esmeraldas-shore-warren-deboer-9780817307929","title":"Traces Behind the Esmeraldas Shore","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlthough long famous for its antiquities--notably intricate goldwork, elaborate pottery, and earthen mounds--the Santiago-Cayapas region of coastal Ecuador has been relatively neglected from the standpoint of scientific archaeology. Until recently, no sound chronology was available, and even the approximate age of the region's most impressive monument, the large and much-looted site of La Tolita, remained in doubt. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuilding on evidence obtained during the last decade, this book documents an eventful prehistory for Santiago-Cayapas that spans three millennia. A highlight of this prehistory was the reign of La Tolita as a regional center from 200 B.C. to A.D. 350. Archaeological data from\u003cbr\u003eLa Tolita's hinterland indicate a complex and changing social landscape in which La Tolita's hegemony was never absolute nor uncontested. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbundantly illustrated and written in a crisp, witty, and occasionally irreverent style, \u003ci\u003eTraces Behind the Esmeraldas Shore\u003c\/i\u003e will stimulate debate and rankle interpretive conventions about those social formations that archaeologists gloss as 'chiefdoms.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Warren Deboer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0817307923\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780817307929\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Alabama Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/30\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.93lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.01h x 6.07w x 0.63d","brand":"Warren Deboer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48086954344703,"sku":"9780817307929","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dab55f47-d61e-420b-8a7e-4cfeff6bb35b.jpg?v=1769097457","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/traces-behind-the-esmeraldas-shore-warren-deboer-9780817307929","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}